The OS X Finder accounts for temporary space used by background services, while Disk Utility and other tools do not. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Disk Utility has stayed more or less the same for years, but Apple has given the Mac power user’s much-loved maintenance tool a big overhaul in El Capitan, making it look different and removing ...

Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Poor Disk Utility. It seems fated to remain one of Mac OS X’s most underappreciated utilities. If you’ve even launched it at all, chances are you haven’t gone beyond using its First Aid features to ...

One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility—a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the ...

Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The ...

The biggest rivals in Windows-based disk utilities are Paragon and Acronis, and they each come out with new and more powerful partitioning and disk-management software once every year or so. You can't ...

The biggest rivals in Windows-based disk utilities are Paragon and Acronis, and they each come out with new and more powerful partitioning and disk-management software once every year or so. You can't ...

In my last post, Hummingboard: Giving Raspberry Pi a run for less money, I mentioned using a free. open source Windows utility called Win32 Disk Imager to create a disk image of Debian GNU/Linux ...

Old file fragments and registry detritus can slow down your Windows PC. We tested three well-known disk cleaners to see if they could help. It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down ...